Shelf Blog: Customer Service

As your support tickets keep coming in, wouldn’t it be nice to use knowledge to deflect a few requests? It took us 20 minutes to find this post on Reddit and yet companies take years to realize that providing content does not mean providing answers. Conventional wisdom suggests the more knowledge...

Customers hate waiting on hold, end of story. Waiting on hold for too long is the #1 complaint of all customers since the beginning of call centers’ existence. However, when a customer calls in with an issue that requires a little more expert knowledge, they are often put on hold for an...

This blog post was originally published on Genesys blog.  The percentage of “difficult” enquiries has more than doubled since COVID19 started to hit the global economy. Forcing companies to be remote places incredible pressure on your communications and support processes. It’s obvious that...

Here are some common issues related to poor customer service. Shift starts at 9:00? Better be at my desk at 8:30 to login and reopen all of the tabs I need. Coworker needs help with a difficult issue? Thank goodness my customer seems calm and can hold for a few minutes while I research a...

Chatbots are quickly becoming an essential part of delivering customer service. According to a study by IT experts Spiceworks, up to 40% of businesses with 500 or more employees will have active chatbot or AI assistants by the end of 2019. These businesses have discovered the incredible benefits...

This post originally appeared on our partner, Genesys’ website. Despite advances in technology and management practices, customer service statistics haven’t improved over the last four decades. A recent study from Arizona State University found that, back in 1976, only 44% of respondents...